Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The paper discusses a celebrated Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov's attitude to Islam. This article is devoted to Velimir Khlebnikov’s post-revolutionary poem 'Tyrant Without a T' (Tupan ties To), which was written in Iran and stemmed from the Futurist’s engagement with Iranian culture. The author focuses on the relationship between Xlebnikov’s behavior and his creative work.Special attention is paid to the word 'dervish', which appears in the poem repeatedly: it is precisely with dervishes that the whole idea of the “marginalized” Muslim adept is linked. Khlebnikov’s attitude toward two heterodox Islamic figures — Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí (Bab, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith) and Qurrat al-Ayn (Tahire') — is also examined. The essay offers a reconstruction of the ideas about dervishes current among Xlebnikov’s contemporaries. This reconstruction is based on print sources of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
